WEBVTT LINE, IT IS A ROLLERCOASTER OF HIGH HOPES AND-- -- DASHED DREAMS.THIS CASEWORKER AT CATHOLICCHARITIES, A ONETIME REFUGEEHIMSELF, HAS HIS HANDS FULL ATTHE MOMENT. FINGERS CLATTER AT COMPUTERKEYBOARD.BUSY WITH UP TO A DOZEN REFUGEEFAMILIES, LOCALLY BY MID-WEEK,THERE COULD BE ANOTHER.A SYRIAN MOTHER AND HER TWODAUGHTERS, AGES THREE AND FOUR.THEY ARE AT A TURKISH REFUGEECAMP.THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO ARRIVELAST TUESDAY.BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVEORDER TOOK EFFECT, BLOCKING HERENTRY.BACK TO CAMP SHE WENT TOHARDSHIP MADE EVEN HARDE>> YOU GIVE AWAY YOUR BEDS, YOURBEDDING, YOUR COOKING POTS, ALLTHOSE THINGS YOU GIVE AWAY ANDYOU GO TO THE AIRPORT.AND THEN, SUDDENLY YOU GO BACKAND ALL THOSE THINGS ARE NOTTHERE.SO, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU, IDON'T KNOW HOW YOU GET OVERTHAT.JOHN: LAST FRIDAY, TWO-DOZENWOMEN FROM BHUTAN, THE CONGO,SOMALIA AND SUDAN GATHERED ATCATHOLIC CHARITIES TO TRY TO GETA GRIP ON THE UNCERTAINTY.BISHNU PHUYAL SAYS THERE'S A LOTOF THAT GOING AROUND LATELY.>> THEY ARE VERY MUCH WORRIED.ANYBODY, WE GO TO THEM, WE VISITTHE FAMILY.MOST OF THEM, THEY DON'T OPENTHE DOOR.THEY THINK THAT WE ARE THERE FORSOME OTHER REASON.JOHN MANY OF THE WOMEN WHO HAVERESETTLED IN THE CINCINNATI AREAHAVE HUSBANDS, PARENTS, SIBLINGSSTILL IN REFUGEE CAMPS.PHUYAL HAS BEEN THERE.HE WAS A TEEN IN HIS FIRST FEWREFUGEE CAMP YEARS IN NEPAL.ASKED TO RECALL THE HARDEST PARTOF THAT EXPERIENCE, SO FOREIGNTO THE LIFESTYLES HERE INAMERICA, PHUYAL PAUSED AND TOLDUS.>> EVERYTHING.BECAUSE THERE IS NO GOOD WATERIN THE REFUGEE CAMP.THERE IS NO GOOD SHELTER.LIKE WE HAD TO LIVE UNDER THEPLASTIC ROOFIF THERE IS RAIN, IF THERE ISSTORM, EVERYTHING IS TO BE TAKAWAY.JOHN LAST WE HEARD, THE FINALEG OF THE JOURNEY FOR THATSYRIAN REFUGEE MOTHER IN TURKEYHAD STILL NOT BEEN WORKED OUT.THEY'RE AIMING FOR, HOPING FORTOMORROW NIGHT AT OUR AIRPORT

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President Trump lashed out at the federal court ruling that blocks his ban, saying the nation's courts are making it "very difficult" to ensure the security of the country.

For most Americans, the debate about the ban on refugees from seven specific countries is something to follow on television, Twitter or in the newspapers.

For those who are dependent upon entry to America as a lifeline, the past week has been a roller coaster of high hopes and dashed dreams.

Bishnu Phuyal, a caseworker at Catholic Charities and a onetime refugee himself, said there is a great deal of angst in the local refugee communities about their loved ones.

He was busy again Monday with up to a dozen local refugee families.

By Tuesday night, there could be another.

A Syrian mother and her two daughters, ages 3 and 4, are back at a Turkish refugee camp.

They were supposed to arrive in Cincinnati last Tuesday.

But President Trump's executive order took effect, blocking their entry.

They were returned to the hardship of their camp that became even harder.

"You give away your beds, your bedding, your cooking pots, all those things you give away and you go to the airport," recounted Ted Berg, the CEO of Catholic Charities. "And then suddenly you go back and all those things are not there. So, I don't know how you get over that."

Last Friday, two dozen women from Bhutan, Congo, Somalia and Sudan gathered at Catholic Charities to try to get a grip on the uncertainty.

Phuyal said there's a lot of that going around lately.

"They are very much worried," Phuyal stated. "Anybody, we go to them, we visit the family. Most of them, they don't open the door. They think that we are there for some other reason."

Many of the women who have resettled in the Cincinnati area have husbands, parents and siblings still in the refugee camps.

Phuyal has been there. He was a teenager in his first few refugee camp years in Nepal.

Asked to recall the hardest part of that experience, so foreign to the lifestyles here in America, Phuyal paused and told us, "Everything. Because there is no good water in the refugee camp. There is no good shelter. Like we had to live under the plastic roof. If there is rain, if there is storm, everything is to be taken away."

At last word, the final leg of the flight for the Syrian refugee mother in Turkey had yet to be arranged.

Catholic Charities is hoping the family can arrive tomorrow night now that the ban is temporarily lifted. But, as with so much of the current immigration situation, the agency cannot be certain it will happen at all.